MEPs push commission for equal pay action

Socialist MEPs have called on EU social affairs commissioner Vladimir Spidla to examine EU equal pay rules in light of a controversial European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling, but the commission is not keen to act for now.

In a letter seen by EUobserver, Hungarian and Danish socialist MEPs Zita Gurmai and Paul Nyrup Rasmussen "urge" social affairs commissioner Vladimir Spidla to take "immediate action to assess and remedy a potentially major problem" in Europe.

"We are alarmed that...